Links for June 2nd

TPM: ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Opens Fire On Store Because It Ran Out Of Crawfish42-year-old Larry Wayne Kelly—yes, middle name "Wayne"— opened fire on Pensacola's L&T Seafood Market with an AK-47 after they sold out of crawfish. When police tried to arrest them, he tried to run them down with his car. But it's OK, Kelly says, because he's a "sovereign citizen"—laws don't apply to him.

Wikipedia: List of IARC Group 2B carcinogensI thought it was big news that the World Health Organization had classified cell phones as a potential carcinogen, until I read more about "Group 2B," as it's been classified. Also on the list is baby powder, carpentry, coffee, and pickles. These are things that may or may not be carcinogens—nobody knows for sure. Most humans on the planet have mobiles phones, yet brain tumors are no more common now than they've ever been—that seems to settle it for me, at least given the current paucity of evidence.

So let’s say for the sake of argument that we recognize Mr. Kelly as a sovereign citizen; can the rest of us who have metaphorically signed the social contract recognize firing a weapon at someone else’s property as an act of war?

If we suggested to him that this was the appropriate way to handle his claim, I’d imagine he’d abandon this whole “sovereign citizen” nonsense faster than you could say “Guantanamo Bay.”